Saga

See also: Appendix:Variations of "saga"

Translingual

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Proper noun

Saga f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Tettigoniidae – certain bush crickets.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda - subphylum; Insecta - class; Pterygota - subclass; Neoptera - infraclass; Polyneoptera - superorder; Orthoptera - order; Ensifera - suborder; Tettigoniidea - infraorder; Tettigonioidea - superfamily; Tettigoniidae - family; Saginae - subfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus): Saga pedo (predatory bush cricket, spiked magician) - type species; Saga hellenica - selected species

References

• Saga (bush cricket) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Saga on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Saga (Orthoptera) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

English

Etymology 1

From Japanese 佐賀 (Saga).

Proper noun

Saga

1. Saga Prefecture (a prefecture in western Kyushu, Japan)
2. The capital city of Saga Prefecture, Japan.

Translations

a prefecture in Japan

• Arabic: سَاغَا f (sāḡā)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 佐賀／佐贺 (Zuǒhè)

• Czech: Saga (cs) f
• Japanese: 佐賀県 (ja) (Saga-ken), 佐賀 (ja) (Saga)
• Korean: 사가 (ko) (Saga)
• Marathi: सागा (sāgā)
• Russian: Са́га (ru) f (Sága)

a city in Saga Prefecture

• Arabic: سَاغَا f (sāḡā)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 佐賀／佐贺 (Zuǒhè)

• Czech: Saga (cs) f
• Japanese: 佐賀市 (ja) (さがし, Saga-shi), 佐賀 (ja) (さが, Saga)
• Korean: 사가 (ko) (Saga)
• Marathi: सागा (sāgā)
• Russian: Са́га (ru) f (Sága)

Etymology 2

From saga or its etymon Old Norse saga.

Proper noun

Saga

1. (rare) A unisex given name.

   Saga Becker

   • 2007, Saga McOdongo, Deadly money maker
   • 2019 January 28, Dimitris Akrivos, Alexandros K. Antoniou, Crime, Deviance and Popular Culture: International and Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Springer, →ISBN, page 34:

     […] Saga Norén's personal story that forms the series' sentimental narrative. As part of her strategy to develop ways to understand the personal motivations of the killers and other people around her, Saga Norén actively uses her partners […]

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Tibetan ས་དགའ (sa dga').

Proper noun

Saga

1. A county of Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China
   • 2003, Michele Martin, Music in the Sky: The Life, Art, and Teachings of the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje‎^[1], Snow Lion Publications, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 82:

     Previously, they had met a man from Saga county, not far from the Nepali border, who had given an interesting piece of information: from his place, he had seen people escaping over a mountain into Nepal.

   • 2010, Jonathan Green, Murder in the High Himalaya: Loyalty, Tragedy, and Escape from Tibet‎^[2], 1st edition (Politics), PublicAffairs, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 33:

     More likely than capture is death at the hands of Chinese border police. Killings like that of fifteen-year-old Yeshe Dundrub, shot at night in Saga County (Ch: Saga Xian) in November 1999, while fleeing with forty others to Nepal, are covered up when possible. (Dundrub, whose dream was to be a monk, died in a military hospital bed nine hours after he was shot.)

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 薩嘎／萨嘎 (zh) (Sàgā)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saga at Google Ngram Viewer
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Saga”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2682, column 3

Anagrams

• AGAs, Agas, GAAs, agas, saag

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaːɣa/
• Rhymes: -aːɣa
• Homophone: saga

Proper noun

Saga f

1. a female given name

Declension

declension of Saga

f-w1	singular
	indefinite
nominative	Saga
accusative	Sögu
dative	Sögu
genitive	Sögu

Swedish

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Saga c (genitive Sagas)

1. a female given name derived from the Swedish noun saga, used since the 19th century

Anagrams

• agas